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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      11 Sept 2014
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2014

      Interview

      Applied online through their career website. Got an email from the recruiter the next day. She set up an online timed coding assessment. The questions were: 1) Given an int number in bits, format it into exactly 3 digits (with a decimal) and add a G for gigs, M for megabytes K for kilobytes and B for bytes. 2) Given two arrays of integers, create a third array with the element in each position in the first array multiplied by every element in the second array except for the element at the same index in the second array. Passed that. On to phone screen. Questions straight out of Cracking the Coding Interview (book): 1) Rotate a 2D array 90 degrees clockwise, in-place without using a second 2D array 2) Design a chat server Flew out to Amazon in Seattle: First Interview) Given an array of integers sorted in ascending order, return a list of all elements that have the difference of 2 (for example 2 and 4, or 5 and 7). Second Interview) Behavioral. Tell me about the most challenging task. Hardest bug. ...Lunch break Third Interview) Given a bitmap, find the largest size of adjacent 1's. Fourth Interview) Given a sorted array, return a set of all ranges in the array. For example [0,1,2,4,6,7,8] has ranges 0-2, 4-4, and 6-8. Fifth interview) Design a furniture store. (It was very hard to understand the girl interviewing me, not because she had bad english, but because she just wasn't able to articulate what she was asking. She was obviously new and nervous). Sixth interview) Design an airplane tracking system. Got an email the next week (Interview was Friday, got email following Wednesday) that I did well with the simple solutions and got everything right, but struggled with the more difficult solutions, which I should have gotten easily given my years of experience. So no offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Given a bitmap, find the largest size of adjacent 1's.
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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      17 June 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.

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      Question 1

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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      3 June 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.

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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      23 June 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Calgary, AB
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in June 2026

      Interview

      Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.

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      Question 1

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